The Dell Any Hardy comic series was based on the Andrew “Andy” Hardy character played by Mickey Rooney in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer series of sixteen films from 1937 to 1946, and includes a final film released in 1958 in an unsuccessful attempt to continue the series.

Hardy and others were based on characters in the play Skidding by Aurania Rouverol. Early films in the series were about the Hardy family as a whole, but later entries focused on the character of Andy Hardy.

Rooney was the only member of the ensemble to appear in all 16 films. The Hardy films, which were enormously popular in their heyday, were sentimental comedies, celebrating ordinary American life.

About This Collection

This comic collection includes the issues 359, 447, and 515 from Dell’s 1942 Four Color Comics series and Issues 5 and 6 from Dell’s Andy hardy series. All illustrated by Al Hubbard.

Al Hubbard

Al Hubbard (1915-1984) was a Disney comics artist who did mostly Chip ‘n Dale, Scamp and Jiminy Cricket stories, but did various Donald Duck stories too – the very first Fethry Duck stories among them. Actually, Hubbard drew almost 60 stories with Donald’s wacky cousin. He was an animator for Disney from 1938 to 1941 and did some non-Disney comics (mostly funny animals comics) as well.

Hubbard has illustrated several comic adaptations of Disney films, such as ‘Jungle Book’, ‘The Lady and the Tramp’, ‘The Aristocats’ and ‘Peter Pan’.He ended his Disney comics career in 1979.